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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHSA-2019-3699 Moderate Advisory on Evolution

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Calendar Grey November 5, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Cautious security notice for Red Hat concerning a new patch for Evolution, addressing significant issues and improving overall security measures.
An update for evolution, evolution-data-server, and evolution-ews is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a secu...

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

All running instances of Evolution must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Summary

Evolution is a GNOME application that provides integrated email, calendar, contact management, and communications functionality.
Security Fix(es):
* evolution-ews: all certificate errors ignored if configured to ignore an initial error in gnome-online-accounts creation resulting in the connection open to being viewed and modified. (CVE-2019-3890)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux evolution evolution-data-server certificate error

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-3890 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.1_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: evolution-3.28.5-9.el8.src.rpm evolution-data-server-3.28.5-11.el8.src.rpm evolution-ews-3.28.5-5.el8.src.rpm
noarch: evolution-data-server-langpacks-3.28.5-11.el8.noarch.rpm evolution-ews-langpacks-3.28.5-5.el8.noarch.rpm evolution-help-3.28.5-9.el8.noarch.rpm evolution-langpacks-3.28.5-9.el8.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: evolution-3.28.5-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm evolution-bogofilter-3.28.5-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm evolution-bogofilter-debuginfo-3.28.5-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm evolution-data-server-3.28.5-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm evolution-data-server-debuginfo-3.28.5-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm evolution-data-server-debugsource-3.28.5-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm evolution-data-server-devel-3.28.5-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm evolution-data-server-tests-debuginfo-3.28.5-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm evolution-debuginfo-3.28.5-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm evolution-debugsource-3.28.5-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm evolution-ews-3.28.5-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm evolution-ews-debuginfo-3.28.5-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm evolution-ews-debugsource-3.28.5-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm evolution-pst-3.28.5-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm evolution-pst-debuginfo-3.28.5-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm evolution-spamassassin-3.28.5-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm evolution-spamassassin-debuginfo-3.28.5-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64:

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:3699-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3699
Issue date: 2019-11-05

Topic

An update for evolution, evolution-data-server, and evolution-ews is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux evolution evolution-data-server certificate error

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) - noarch, ppc64le, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - noarch, ppc64le, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1678313 - CVE-2019-3890 evolution-ews: all certificate errors ignored if configured to ignore an initial error in gnome-online-accounts creation resulting in the connection open to being viewed and modified.

1713619 - [abrt] test-cal-client-get-revision could fail due to delayed D-Bus property change notification

1724232 - Help Contents (F1) has a bad link to GNOME site

1724984 - [ECompEditor] Ensure attendee changes stored before save

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